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From 27 October to 17 November 2024 Manchester’s Jewish community recently celebrated 150 years of the Iberian Synagogue. It is continuing these celebrations by organising a series of cultural events this autumn. These include the sharing of Sephardic tales through Hasidic music and drama. Starting with a musical evening on 27 October in the company of Nani Vazane, a Ladino songwriter ...
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From 20 to 25 December 2024 Since the turn of the 21st century, the Limoud festival has established itself as a key event in Jewish cultural sharing. In England, where it was born, and today throughout the world. All kinds of Jewish cultural enthusiasts take their turn as lecturers, artists or spectators in these exchanges on a wide variety of themes. Without taboos, but always with the ...
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From 4 to 6 April 2025 in Youlgrave, Derbyshire Klezmer never ceases to enchant musical evenings around the world. With its ancient inspiration, its travels and sharing of styles and fashions, but also with the joy it brings, especially in worrying times. This magnificent festival gives participants the chance to get together for a few days and learn more about klezmer, but also, and above ...
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7 November 2024, 8pm in London DJ Mizz, accompanied by Ronen Kozokaro on the darbouka and a belly dancer will share oriental music and dance with the audience in a spirit of brotherhood. An inclusive event where cultural differences add spice to this musical encounter. The event takes place in a bar close to Russell Square. Don’t hesitate to contact the organisers for more information. ...
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Until 2 March 2025 at the Frankfurt Jewish Museum In the space dedicated to the museum’s permanent exhibition, you will find a room housing portraits drawn by the artist Else Meidner (1901-1987). These portraits, which also include self-portraits, form an important part of her work, with a hint of melancholy running through it – hence the title of the exhibition, chosen to reflect ...
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From 13 December 2024 to 4 May 2025 at the Jewish Museum Berlin The 100th anniversary of the great writer’s death has prompted the organisation of numerous cultural events paying tribute to him across Europe, starting of course with Prague. The exhibition dedicated to him in Berlin questions the place of his intellectual legacy, particularly in the context of a dialogue with ...
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Until 31 October 2024 at the Centre culturel Anna et Simon Drahi in Levallois The artist Eva Pelles explores many of the symbols present in art and in our everyday lives, especially for this exhibition the fish that caresses the blue of her canvases and the Hebrew letters that dance on them. This is achieved through a magical encounter between ancient stories and references and contemporary ...
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17 November 2024, 5.30pm at the Théâtre Antoine Watteau, Nogent-sur-Marne As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, in partnership with the Maison de la culture juive, the evening will feature two exceptional concerts. First up is the duo of Denis Cuniot (piano) and Yannick Thepault (clarinet). They will share with the audience works by Maurice Ravel, Dmitri ...
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6 November 2024, 8.30pm at the Alhambra As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, this musical presentation takes on the moving and difficult task of telling the story of Les Enfants d’Izieu in music, recounting their short lives. Starting with the text, the music is added to amplify the emotions and share them with the audience. All original compositions ...
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17 November 2024 at 6.30pm at Espace Paul Benhaïm As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, virtuoso clarinettist Marine Goldwaser will once again be enchanting the Klezmer scene. Her Petit Mish-Mash, the ensemble she founded, draws on the repertoire of traditional Romanian music, adding its own energy and style. After working with master equestrian Bartabas, ...
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23 November, 8.30pm at the FSJU Rhône-Alpes As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, Mahaleb draws on the sounds and pains of the past to propose a musical rapprochement and a spirit of brotherhood between Turkish and Armenian music. In this astonishing musical rollercoaster, festive and melancholy melodies mingle and follow one another, influenced as they are ...
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13 November, 7.30pm at the Salle Pétrarque As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, an ensemble of Swiss, Polish, Bulgarian and French artists unite around Marc Crofts in a quest to revive a forgotten klezmer repertoire. A tradition dating back to the beginning of the last century, the folk elements enter into dialogue with the modern tools available to the ...
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9 November 2024, 10pm at Espace Rachi – Guy de Rothschild As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, the festival is welcoming the Canadian ensemble Oktopus, one of Quebec’s leading world music groups, to France for the first time. Klezmer isn’t just about travelling from East to West, and jazz isn’t just about travelling from America to ...
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11 November 2024, 5pm at the Angers synagogue As part of the 2024 edition of the Jazz’N’Klezmer Festival, the Pletzl Bandit is once again taking audiences on a journey through its klezmer universe, with a surprising new approach after so many years of sharing its enthusiasm on stages across France and Europe. The band is made up of Gheorghe Ciumasu on accordion, Charles Rappoport ...
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16 October 2024, at 2pm, at the Shoah Memorial This workshop offers an opportunity to discover the lives of several Righteous in Europe, whose heroism was often discreet and whose recognition was sometimes too discreet by local authorities. More often than not, the men and women who risked their lives in defiance of the Nazi regime and their local auxiliaries felt they had a duty of human ...
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From 7 to 10 November 2024 at the Maison de la culture yiddish A wide-ranging programme is planned for the ‘Lithuania in France 2024’ season. Films, lectures, workshops, tastings of traditional dishes, shabes-tish and a seminar will all combine Yiddish and Lithuania in a variety of ways. Among the many events: a screening of the film The Secrets of Vilna’s Great Synagogue, a comic strip ...
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From 26 September 2024 to 26 January 2025 at the mahJ Sometimes funny, sometimes frightening, sometimes a mixture of both, the dybbuk is haunted by Jewish literary and cinematographic inspirations. This wandering soul who takes possession of a living being originated in the old Yiddish theatre, appearing in Shlomo An-ski’s play ‘Between Two Worlds’, and has been travelling ever since, ...
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From 29 September 2024 at JEM Beaugrenelle In 2007 Marc-Alain Ouaknin co-founded the Targoum Project, a project for a new translation of the Hebrew Bible (translation and commentary), which in 2017 became the Institut Targoum-IRETS (Institut de Recherches et d’Études sur la Traduction des Textes Sacrés), in partnership with the JEM Cultural Centre and the Moses Mendelssohn Foundation. ...
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21 October 2024, 8pm at the JEM Copernic Synagogue The Copernic synagogue’s liturgical choir, directed by Didier Seutin, performs the main pieces from the liturgy of the major feasts of the year in an Ashkenazi version. A journey back in time, to the present and the past rediscovered by these communities forced to flee to the West throughout the 20th century, with a few words and music ...
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28 May 2024 at 6.30pm at the CIG This presentation is given as part of the ‘Let’s talk literature’ reading circle. It is inspired by essays by the influential intellectual André Neher: ‘Faust and the Maharal of Prague: myth and reality’ and ‘David Gans: 1541-1613, disciple of the Maharal, assistant to Tycho Brahe and Jean Kepler’. The event will be presented by Philippe Zabey. Cercle de ...
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8 June at 2.30pm Organised by the Musée National de la Résistance et des Droits Humains (National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights), this route of remembrance allows visitors to discover the places of remembrance erected in Esch to recall the dark hours of the Occupation and commemorate the victims of Nazism. Among the sites visited are the museum, the synagogue and Esch town hall. ...
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Until 9 June 2024 at the Museo Risiera di San Sabba This exhibition, created after lengthy research, began on the 80th anniversary of the first convoys leaving Trieste. It presents the first political deportations and then those of Italian Jews, showing the places where Italian Jews were deported, with the help of photos and maps. A journey illustrated by the stories of the victims and their ...
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Until 24 June 2024 at the Jewish Museum in Rome This exhibition examines the fascinating character of Esther, who influenced novels, films on both sides of the Atlantic, plays and musicals. Various megiloth are presented, including astonishing miniature versions. Works from the Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings refer to Esther, such as those by Michelangelo Buonarroti and Jacopo del ...
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28 May 2024 at 2pm at the Danish Jewish Museum The academic Nancy Segal presents her book, published in 2023, recounting the painful life of two twins in Auschwitz, victims of the experiments carried out by the infamous Mengele. What happened to them, but also their efforts to bring the Nazi torturer to justice. The Twin Children of the Holocaust: The Humanity Behind the Horror – jewmus
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16 June 2024 at 2pm The CCLJ and the Maison de la Culture Juive regularly organise tours of Brussels neighbourhoods to share the past and present of Jewish life, whether in working-class or upmarket districts. This time, it’s the residential district of Uccle, with a very long-standing Jewish presence, as evidenced by the cemetery near the Dieweg. There are currently two Sephardic ...
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7 July 2024, 10 to 11 am This guided tour will introduce you to the museum and its exhibits. But also the old Jewish quarter, with its buildings that housed a synagogue, a Jewish school, a mikveh and a social centre. Most of these buildings have been renovated with the support of the local authorities. Permanent Exhibition and Jewish Quarter | Jüdisches Museum Hohenems (jm-hohenems.at)
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Until 30 July 2024 at the West London Synagogue The Jewish Museum of London is moving its collections to share the works and stories of the Jewish community. On display at the synagogue is a series of photographs entitled ‘No place like home’ by award-winning photographer Judah Passow. These were exhibited at the museum in 2012. A stunning series of images of English Jewish life, in the ...
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On 27 June 2024 Impressive and original musical encounters are planned to herald the summer. The great Senegalese kora player Kadialy Kouyate and the celebrated klezmer accordionist Josh Middleton join forces for a unique collaboration, blending their styles and inspirations. Next up is the quartet of Israeli singer and dancer Noga Ritter, with music inspired by Hebrew jazz and grooves from ...
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21 May 2024 at 7pm, at the Rashi Institute In the 1940s, the New York students and musicians who would become the great artists and writers of the following decade, such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, met in cafés to share poetry and jazz sessions. On 21 May, the Rashi Institute offers you a wonderful evening combining poetry and music. Around the works of great 20th century women poets, ...
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Until 1 December 2024 at the mahJ The museum is hosting an installation by Raphaël Denis on the spoliation of works of art during the Occupation. The artist brings together, in chronological order according to when they were photographed, all the photographed works belonging to the great gallery owner Paul Rosenberg. These volumes were presented in 2019 at the Centre Pompidou, during the ...
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